A display device includes a plurality of pixels disposed in an display area, and a pixel driver connected to at least two of the pixels, wherein the pixel driver drives the at least two pixels, where a portion of the pixel driver is disposed in the display area, and the display device includes the display area, on which an image is displayed, and a non-display area, on which no image is displayed.

Claims

14 · 1 independent · depth 6

14 granted claims

›1.independentA display device comprising: a display panel; a plurality of data lines on the display panel; a plurality of gate lines on the display panel intersect…+13

›2.↳ 1The display device of claim 1 , wherein the second portion of the gate driver extends along one of the plurality of gate lines.d2

›3.↳ 1The display device of claim 1 , wherein the second portion of the gate driver extends along at least two of the plurality of gate lines.d2

›4.↳ 1The display device of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of pixels corresponds to one of a plurality of colors, and the second portion of the gat…d2

›5.↳ 1The display device of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of pixels comprises: a switching unit connected to the gate driver, wherein the switchin…d2+5

›6.↳ 5The display device of claim 5 , wherein the switching unit comprises a thin film transistor including a control terminal, an input terminal and an out…d3+4

›7.↳ 6The display device of claim 6 , wherein the gate driver comprises a plurality of stages connected to each other, each of the plurality of stages is co…d4+3

›11.↳ 1The display device of claim 1 , wherein the second portion of the gate driver comprises at least a portion of an active element.d2

›12.↳ 1The display device of claim 1 , further comprising: a light blocking member covering the non-display area.d2

›13.↳ 1The display device of claim 1 , wherein a pixel adjacent to the gate driver is smaller in size than a pixel, which is not adjacent to the gate driver.d2

›14.↳ 1The display device of claim 1 , wherein a signal from the gate driver drives the at least two pixels based on a separate signal from a data driver.d2

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4 codes

IPC · International Patent Classification

Section G — Physics

G09G3/36
G09G3/3275
G09G3/3266
G09G3/20

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related publication	US 20160307517 A1	20 Oct 2016

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